As long as health ins & Big Pharma determine so much health care policy, gun manufacturers so much gun safety policy, oil & gas companies so much environmental policy & defense contractors so much defense policy, we're functioning not as a democracy but as a corporate aristocracy. (Marianne Williamson)

As long as health ins & Big Pharma determine so much health care policy, gun manufacturers so much gun safety policy, oil & gas companies so much environmental policy & defense contractors so much defense policy, we're functioning not as a democracy but as a corporate aristocracy.

Marianne Williamson

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